• International Commerce and Information Review
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.341-366
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• 2013

The term, Mittelstand, has no exact english translation for the definition, but, today, Mittelstand refers to small and medium-sized enterprises(SME), mostly family-owned firms in Germany. The Mittelstand is called the backbone of the German economy because it drove the economic miracle after World War II. During the global recession and the euro zone's debt crisis in recent years, in which european businesses have faced the near-collapse of competitiveness particularly in manufacturing, the German exports are booming and exceeded exports of China in 2012. Most importantly, the Germany economic performance has been widely attributed to the strength of the Mittelstand. Many of countries, even some leading public companies are seeking to emulate the success of the Mittelstand. Investors evaluate that many of Germany's investable "hidden champions" are Mittelstand companies. The purpose of this study is to present some of answers to the following questions: Firstly, what makes the German Mittelstand so successful? Secondly, what does the success of the German Mittelstand mean for the Korean SMEs in global competitiveness? Thirdly, what Korean government has to do improve the global competitiveness of the Korean SMEs? Some discussions in this study mention the managerial implications for Korean exporting SMEs particularly in manufacturing. Several factors that account for the success of the German Mittelstand are technological excellence and the tradition of family-owned management, concentration on niche market and globalization, and institutional supports. There are some of important lessons to be learned from the German Mittelstand. If the purposes of Korean SMEs want to remain in the sustainable competitive advantage and withstand unforeseen economic turbulences in the future, they must be able to meet the followings: 1) Technology that meets the global standard or exceeding it 2) Competitiveness in price in the global market 3) Active involvement in the globalization process, utilizing various entry modes Innovative products at globally competitive price are a crucial point for Korean exporting SMEs to achieve their competitive edge over others in the target markets abroad. It is time for Korean SMEs to cultivate a core competence in manufacturing in order to position Korea as a global manufacturing hub with SMEs leading.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.111-121
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• 2006

The classification using spectral angle is a new approach based on the fact that the spectra of the same type of surface objects in RS data are approximately linearly scaled variations of one another due to atmospheric and topographic effects. There are many researches on the unsupervised classification using spectral angle recently. Nevertheless, there are only a few which consider the characteristics of Hyperspectral data. On this study, we propose the ISOMUSAC(Iterative Self-Organizing Modified Unsupervised Spectral Angle Classification) which can supplement the defects of previous unsupervised spectral angle classification. ISOMUSAC uses the Angle Division for the selection of seed points and calculates the center of clusters using spectral angle. In addition, ISOMUSAC perform the iterative merging and splitting clusters. As a result, the proposed algorithm can reduce the time of processing and generate better classification result than previous unsupervised classification algorithms by visual and quantitative analysis. For the comparison with previous unsupervised spectral angle classification by quantitative analysis, we propose Validity Index using spectral angle.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.183-189
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of mobile phone use on university students' English reading achievement and consider the value and effectiveness of mobile phones as a learning tool. The study's subjects were students from a university in Seoul, who were divided into an experimental group (n=37) and a control group (n=43). The experimental group used various mobile phone functions-such as searching, recording, taking photos, using mobile apps, and community uploads-in reading class. The control group, on the other hand, focused on students' presentations and the professor's explanations. Two achievement tests and an open-ended questionnaire were administered. The results revealed that the experimental group scored higher than the control group, which showed a significant difference. In addition, the positive impacts of mobile phone use as reported in the questionnaire were interest and motivation, self-directed learning, and continuous learning beyond time and space. In order to foster efficient second language teaching and learning, learners and also teachers must be aware of the potential value of mobile phones as a learning tool. To encourage more active mobile phone use in the classroom, diverse and interesting class activities using mobile phones should be developed.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.61
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• pp.71-118
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• 2019

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of legislation related to records in Korea. The Public Records Management Act of Korea deals with the entire process from production to classification, transfer, and utilization for all records. Recently, the National Archives of Korea is in the process of discussing amending laws to implement records management innovations. It is necessary to take a look at the cases of advanced countries abroad, which have a long tradition of Archival management and focus on preservation records. In this study, Germany's "Federal Archives Act" was targeted. Germany is regarded as a country with a long tradition of managing preservation records. Especially, we have something in common that has experienced the history of division like our country. For the research results, each clause of Germany's "Federal Archives Act" was to be analyzed to understand Germany's Archival Management System. As a country that has experienced the division of Germany and unification, it maintains Archival management after unification. Therefore, we drew on the characteristics of Germany's Archival management law and system and studied what implications could be given to our country.

• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.277-306
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• 2017

This article empirically explores the impact of minijobs in the wake of the Hartz reform in Germany on women's employment relationship. Theoretically it is of great significance to examine whether the minijobs play an active role as a bridge in leading the minijobbers to regular, socially secured jobs or not. Several interviews as well as secondary data I could get during my sabbatical in 2015 were used to test the theory. One of the main findings was the fact that the minijob labor market opened doors wide for women in Germany, particularly for career-interrupted women, students or pensioners. However, the minijob can easily become a trap of lowest income and poverty for women. Most women minjobbers cannot go over to regular, socially secured jobs. Especially in terms of collective industrial relations, it considerably damages the power of industrial unions and the legal binding force of collective agreement. In conclusion, this study makes it clear that the labor market segmentation theory rather than the transitional labor market theory is valid in accounting for the reality of minijob in Germany. In other words, the minijob in Germany has a Toijan Horse Effect. It also suggests, from a practical viewpoint, that German industrial unions or works councils organize the minijobbers and that the coverage of collective agreements be extended to the minijobbers. Consequently, the time-selective part-timer model put into practice in Korea in 2014 is not only invalid but also undesirable.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.81-84
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 중규모급 단어인식기의 실시간 구현을 위한 무감독 단어집단화 알고리듬을 제안한다. 무감독 단어집단화는 인식대상 어휘 수가 많은 대용량 음성인식 시스템에서 대상 어휘 수를 줄여주는 역할을 하는 전처리기의 성격을 갖는다. 무감독 집단화를 위해 각 단어의 유$\cdot$무성음 고유의 특성을 잘 반영할 수 있는 특징 파라미터 5개를 사용하여 패턴 인식과 회귀분석에서 널리 사용되고 있는 분류$\cdot$회귀트리(Classification And Regression Tree)에 적용시키는 방법으로 접근하였고, 각 단어의 frame 수를 일정하게 n개로 분할(segment)하여 1개의 tree를 생성시키는 방법과 각 segment에 해당하는 tree를 생성시켜 segment들 사이의 교집합 성분으로 단어들을 집단화 하였다 실험결과 탐색 대상단어 22개에서 평균2.21개로 줄어 전체 대상 단어의 $10\%$만을 탐색하여 인식할 수 있는 방법을 제시할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.730-734
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• 2007

In this paper, we suggest the criticality of Hidden Failure with regard to the design of watch dog timer, used to detect HALT on railway signaling embedded controller, via FMEA and FTA. Hidden Failure means reliability and safety degradation of the system due to any failure occurred on elements added for fault tolerance. In this paper, therefore, we design vital watch dog timer to prevent the system from operating in low SIL conditions and assess the safety of circuit on failure occurrence to demonstrate that safety degradation problems owing to existing design are supplemented.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.563-565
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• 2010

정보 접근의 편리성과 신속성, 검색의 용이성, 원문제공의 즉시성이라는 장점 때문에 이용자들은 전자저널을 통하여 정보를 얻으려는 경향이 강해지고 있다. K기관에서는 이러한 이용자들의 요구를 만족시키는 정보를 제공하기 위해 평가를 거쳐 전자저널 패키지를 선정하여 구독하고 있다. 본 논문은 고품질 서비스를 이용자들에게 제공하기 위하여 이용자들이 전자저널 재구독 요구를 할 때 영향을 주는 객관적이거나 주관적인 요소들이 있는지 연구하였다. 가설을 수립한 후 가설의 검증을 위하여 종속변수인 이용자들의 구독갱신 요구가 독립변수인 전자저널의 수록 종수, SCIE 등재저널 비율 등의 객관적인 요소 또는 이용자설문조사를 통하여 파악된 이용빈도, 이용의 편리성 등의 주관적인 요소와 상관관계가 있는지 여부를 분석하여 보았다. 분석결과 객관적인 요소들은 재구독 요구와 상관관계가 없었다. 주관적인 요소 중에서도 이용의 편리성은 상관관계가 없었고 이용빈도만이 재구독 요구와 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 즉 설문조사에서 이용자들이 이용빈도가 높다고 표시한 전자저널 패키지에 대하여 재구독 요구가 많았다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.387-394
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• 2000

The biggest factor of errors which is constructed to the database of aerial photo image is happen to process of scanning with aerial photogrammetric scanner. For the quality assurance of aerial phto image database, we are need to the verification process of aerial photogrammetric scanner. This study is purposed to exhibit quality assurance method of aerial photo image database which is established to verification method of accuracy for aerial photogrammetric scanner. As the results of this study, we are established to verification method of accuracy for aerial photogrammetric scanner. And, the proposed methods according to this study are known to contributequality assurance of aerial photo image database.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.439-443
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• 2021

기계 독해는 단락과 질의가 주어졌을 때 단락 내 정답을 찾는 자연어 처리 태스크이다. 최근 벤치마킹 데이터셋에서 사전학습 언어모델을 기반으로 빠른 발전을 보이며 특정 데이터셋에서 인간의 성능을 뛰어넘는 성과를 거두고 있다. 그러나 이는 단락 내 범위(span)에서 추출된 정보에 관한 것으로, 실제 연산을 요구하는 질의에 대한 응답에는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 범위 내에서 응답이 가능할 뿐만이 아니라, 연산에 관한 이산 추론을 요구하는 단락 및 질의에 대해서도 응답이 가능한 기계 독해 모델의 효과성을 검증하고자 한다. 이를 위해 영어 DROP (Discrete Reasoning Over the content of Paragraphs, DROP) 데이터셋으로부터 1,794개의 질의응답 쌍을 Google Translator API v2를 사용하여 한국어로 번역 및 정제하여 KoDROP (Korean DROP, KoDROP) 데이터셋을 구축하였다. 단락 및 질의를 참조하여 연산을 수행하기 위한 의미 태그를 한국어 KoBERT 및 KoELECTRA에 접목하여, 숫자 인식이 가능한 KoNABERT, KoNAELECTRA 모델을 생성하였다. 실험 결과, KoDROP 데이터셋은 기존 기계 독해 데이터셋과 비교하여 단락에 대한 더욱 포괄적인 이해와 연산 정보를 요구하였으며, 가장 높은 성능을 기록한 KoNAELECTRA는 KoBERT과 비교하여 F1, EM에서 모두 19.20의 월등한 성능 향상을 보였다.